This book centers around and was inspired by an experience with four wizards. From this experience I have developed a way of thinking and living that is vividly expressed in my architectural work. I wrote this book to present both the method of thinking and the architectural work, as together they are taking me on a journey I feel would be valuable to document.
Consider this book as having three parts.
PART ONE calls forth an appropriate state of mind from which to perceive the “wizard information”. The journey begins here with the Human Condition, and slowly moves out of it as the book progresses.
PART TWO presents the “wizard information” along with a real and existing way of applying it in our reality. This is where my architectural work appears- as an example of this type of thinking manifesting a new reality.
PART THREE moves beyond our own reality, via the “wizard information”, into the universe and toward an image of God.
Thus, this book is a journey toward a state of mind from which the “wizard information” can be perceived. It then moves through that information and beyond the human condition. It is about finding and moving toward our potential. My hope is that opening this book to any page will present some aspect of this potential.
Thank you for your attention,
Michael Reynolds
Preface
Immediately after graduating from architecture school in 1969 I moved to Taos, New Mexico, because I had been there on vacation and loved it.
Part One
CH 1 – Looking at the Human Condition
A look at humanity, consciousness and energy in an effort to form a true picture of our current world situation.
CH 2 – A Link with Light
Humanity examined in terms of light.
CH 3 – Where Mind and Matter Meet
Establishing a frame of reference near the extremities of existing dogma.
Part Two
CH 4 – The Coming of Wizards
The experience from which I received the “wizard information” and the presentation of that information.
CH 5 – Direct Living
A real and immediate application of the way of thinking presented in the previous chapters.
Part Three
CH 6 – The Art of Leaning
A method of “joining forces” with evolution in order to deal with our existence more appropriately.
CH 7 – Non Local Awareness
A discussion of various methods for moving away from the Human Condition.
CH 8 – Image of God
Projecting the methods for shifting out of the Human Condition toward the ultimate phenomenon we call God.
Appendix
Incidents - Dated Excerpts - Visions, Material taken straight from a journal I was keeping in the early to middle 1970’s.
A Coming of Wizards: A Manual of Human Potential
8 Pamphlets covering the concepts and philosophies behind being human and designing, living in and teaching Earthship Biotecture.